Category: Science and the Media
Denial of germ theory and the genetic basis of disease: Two pillars of MAHA
To understand MAHA, understand the specific science that it denies.
I am a Private Citizen Seeking to Hold My Government Accountable. Dr. Vinay Prasad, a Government Doctor, Killed My YouTube Channel.
Americans do not need our government's permission to remember the words of our public officials, and I refuse to let them be silenced or censored.
A Request for Founders of Sensible Medicine: Teach Us Why it Was Ethical to Profit from Pro-Kennedy Propaganda. We All Have So Much to Learn From Your Glorious Nuance.
When Lysenkoism threatened the US, some of us tried to stop it. Other doctors saw an opportunity to attract paid subscribers.
Every accusation was a confession of what they wanted to do if they were to attain power
On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would shift power over grantmaking away from career scientists to political appointees. Lysenkoism 2.0 has been made official policy, and science in the US is in deep trouble.
EBM “Boy Wonder” Vinay Prasad is toppled
Evidence-based medicine "Boy Wonder" Dr. Vinay Prasad was fired as CBER Director after less than three months on the job. What can the kerfuffle surrounding his ouster tell us about the FDA and doctors who enabled Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.?
The Opinion Class: Practicing Focused Protection From Reality
A class of sheltered COVID pundits are eager to conjure an alternate history where we let the virus spread in 2020 and everything turned out just fine.
Go Ahead, Make the Case That Science, Free Speech, and the FDA Are Thriving Under Drs. Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad
Unlike Drs. Adam Cifu and John Mandrola, I do not constantly boast of my "nuance" or claim to be a master of "clinical appraisal." They have so much to teach me.
After ACIP: Where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely go from here in his quest to eliminate vaccines
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was on The Tucker Carlson Show last week. It got me to thinking: What's next in RFK Jr.'s crusade against vaccines after he turned ACIP into an antivax committee?
Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad embrace a “more fluid concept of evidence” at the FDA
Last Thursday during a roundtable on stem cell therapies, new FDA Commissioner Marty Makary referred to EBM levels of evidence as an artificial and dogmatic construct. Apparently Dr. David Katz's "more fluid concept of evidence" now reigns at the FDA—selectively.
The Semmelweis gambit: A red flag for defending bad science and quackery
A proponent of the Great Barrington Declaration is comparing rejection of its "natural herd immunity" approach to the pandemic to the rejection of Ignaz Semmelweis and his findings. It's a deceptive comparison beloved of all manner of scientific cranks.